{"id":601876,"date":"2026-02-14T01:22:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T01:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/601876\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T01:22:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T01:22:40","slug":"texas-coach-vic-schaefer-rips-team-after-vanderbilt-loss-we-have-no-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/601876\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Coach Vic Schaefer Rips Team After Vanderbilt Loss: &#8216;We Have No Heart&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\"><a class=\"entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/womens-college-basketball\/texas-longhorns-team\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas<\/a> women&#8217;s basketball coach Vic Schaefer didn\u2019t hold back his criticism following the No. 4 Longhorns\u2019 86-70 loss to No. 5 <a class=\"entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/womens-college-basketball\/vanderbilt-commodores-team\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vanderbilt<\/a> on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">&#8220;We have no heart,&#8221; Schaefer said. &#8220;We\u2019re not tough. It\u2019s probably the softest team I\u2019ve had in years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">The Longhorns trailed by 26 points before making a late push, cutting the deficit to 16.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">&#8220;It translates from practices \u2026 my fault,&#8221; Schaefer said. &#8220;I\u2019ll wear it. I\u2019ll wear all of it. It\u2019s my fault. It stops now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">After skewering his team, Schaefer pivoted to giving credit to the Commodores and national scoring leader Makayla Blakes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">&#8220;That damn team over there is really good,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I had a coach that spent two weeks on this scout, you&#8217;d never know it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">Blakes scored 34 points, her fourth 30-point game in a row and Vanderbilt&#8217;s fourth win in a row.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">Schaefar also commented on the job coach Shea Ralph had done. Ralph brought the Commodores from a 22-11 record last year to currently No. 2 in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/womens-college-basketball\/southeastern\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">SEC<\/a> at 22-2 as of Week 15.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">&#8220;There is nothing harder to do than bring a team from the bottom in this league to the top,&#8221; he said. &#8220;She&#8217;s got really good players, but she&#8217;s coaching the hell out of them.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">The Longhorns visit No. 22 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/womens-college-basketball\/tennessee-lady-volunteers-team\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tennessee<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">Reporting by The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas women&#8217;s basketball coach Vic Schaefer didn\u2019t hold back his criticism following the No. 4 Longhorns\u2019 86-70 loss&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3723],"tags":[7,217,231,772,1544,2398,20705,80286,6135],"class_list":{"0":"post-601876","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-college-basketball","10":"tag-ncaa","11":"tag-ncaa-basketball","12":"tag-ncaab","13":"tag-texas-longhorns","14":"tag-vanderbilt-commodores","15":"tag-wcbk-texas-longhorns-vs-vanderbilt-commodores-02-12-2026","16":"tag-womens-college-basketball"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116066369096116243","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}